Flow Transition stopped working

The flow transition has a pretty limited range. I does work by freezing one Kmart and flowing into the next, but it’s becessary for the incoming image to be a close approximation of the outgoing image or you will get a dissolve effect.

Did you try deleting preferences (always the first to try when something misbehaves)?

To delete preferences, hold down command and option while starting FCP X and click Delete Preferences.

I wonder if maybe, just maybe, you are asking too much of the Flow transition. It appears that you use it heavily. IMHO this is perhaps not the best option.

The Flow transition should be able to cope with small cuts, even out some small imperfections, but it is not a panacea for smoothing out very evident ones.

Rather than trying to disguise cuts, I suggest you embrace them.

I prefer short fades to/from black which acknowledge that something was not filmed continuously. Just my $0.02

The arm movement is too large to morph and makes the flow into a dissolve. The difference you see is exaggerated by the grade and makes it more obvious. Neither makes a flow transition.

If you could post a short example of where the Flow transition works and doesn't work, then maybe we can suggest alternatives.

I tried one example, with and without effects, and it "works" in the sense that it does its thing in both cases. I don't like the results anyway. I think there are probably better ways, as I wrote before. Nevertheless, my little experiment seems to contradict your assumption.

No, I did not listen to the audio. I can't turn it on at the moment due to my location.

I was looking at the left arm and right hand, and those seem to be the same.

Now I looked at the FACE and I see a big difference.

Does rendering the transition make any difference? (I don't expect it to, but it is worth trying)

Hi Cris,

I have been facing the same issue since FCP X 10.4 was released by Dec 2017. I am the most unfortunate person, since I was using the flow, at least 10 times a day. I tried all solutions including reinstalling FCP X and even changing the Mac Book Pro Retina display model from mid 2012 to mid 2015. Wasted lot of time and money, but of no use.

Also, often export becomes a failure, due to 'Flow' transition, with the error code 50. I am able to identify the Flow which stops the export, by checking the frame where export terminates.

Hope, sooner Apple will rectify this issue.

Thank you for posting the video.

I am sorry, but it all looks exactly the same to me.

I even did screen captures of similar frames with and without effects. I can't spot the difference.